Baring It All

A couple of my classmates at Wilderness Awareness School wore these Vibram FiveFingers shoes and I was quite intrigued by them. It was really cool to read this article about the benefits of barefoot running

I would love to get a pair of these if they weren't so expensive. Oh well, if I wait a year or two there will be generic versions of them out.

Attention is the Holy Grail

An interesting article on the effects of our information and technological overload on our brains and how we might repair them.

I know why I feel so much more alive and capable of making sound decisions when I'm in the woods and away from all of that technological crap!

Threads...

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have stepped back into a world that hasn't changed and even though I can speak with more clarity about what it is that I am doing, people still aren't really getting it. Guess I need to follow my own motto from Survivor Camp: "Don't tell them, show them."

Thus an elder's poem really speaks to me at the moment...

The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.

- William Stafford

Check out Ched

I'd heard a bit about Ched Myers when I posted back in December about Feral Christianity and have had a few days to check out some of the stuff he's been saying and I really am liking the message that he is bringing the church today and how so much of it fits what I've been doing and experiencing the past 10 months of my life and faith development. Click on the link or here to go to his web-page.